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After reconstituting my head after it has exploded due to the amount of absolutely amazing stuff coming out of sony for the ps4 I have decided to write a blog post.

I know it's a bit late coming because I have been on night shift at my day job but here is a breakdown of what I think about the biggest and Best.

Right Off the hop we are greeted by a Game called The Last Guardian. It's a pretty game with wicked looking play cinematics. Absolutely stunning. For those of you who like 3rd person tombraider/soul reaver like play this game would be for you. It looks to offer some pretty in-depth story telling through visuals, while not much was explained in during the conference; it did however lend it self to the arts side of video games.

Next up was a rather gritty looking futuristic post apocalyptic man versus machine monster hunter looking title called Horizon: Zero Dawn. Game play looks akin to monster hunter (for those of you familiar with that series from capcom). The story looks compelling and the games play looks absolutely EPIC! A third person shooter adventure where one hunts and destroys rather monster-like machines both big and small. One stand out feature during games play was the ability to pick up various bits that fell of these machines and use them as weapons! More then likely a title I will pick up once I get my hands on a PS4.

HITMAN! I haven't played hitman, nope not one. Not that I am uninterested I just never got a copy in my grubby hands to try. However I did watch my cousin Skurge_Uv_Man play it and I must say this new is heads above visually to make him turn his attention to it.

F&*K YEAH STREET FIGHTER!!!! thats right! I am a huge street fighter fan. Have been since the ARCADE was a thing. The visuals displayed on that screen were beyond stunning, and the fight between Cammy and Bison was EPIC beyond awesome. Again probably a title I WILL be picking up. Visuals looked amazing, Lets hope the game play delivers. Fighters as a genre have been failing for sometime with one exception... street fighter.

Destiny: The Taken King! OMG A hunter with a bow, A war lock shooting magic out of his hands, and a titan wielding a huge friggin hammer! I WANT MY HAMMER! I can't wait for this DLC. Hints of a new raid, and of course that new third class. New weapons and stuff! Oh hellz yes! toss me a copy of that bungie!

World of Final Fantasy, I don't know what to say about this one. I am a huge HUGE fan of Final Fantasy's earlier works. In fact I purchased Final Fantasy 1 for the NES. I played it to death! I played it to death across multiple platforms. I can say the same for Final Fantasy 4(2 North America) and Final Fantasy 6( 3 North america and My favourite of the franchise) and FF7. However I am not so impressed by this title, i guess i'll have to wait till I play it.

BLACK OPS 3!!!!!! At first i was a little apprehensive about this release. scared they would destroy something that I have loved to play in the past. After looking at both the story mode and online play... all i can say is has cool machines, and the vs mode plays like a hardcore version of destiny! F&*K YEAH I'LL TAKE IT! Running on walls, the plethora or guns, special abilities, I looks like it is not going to disappoint! However if you're not into the special enhancements, or haven't played destiny this might be a bit painful for those who don't like change. However for those of you who don't like change, trust me! It's going to be worth it!

I am going to skip over the disney star wars stuff, only because it's been done to death. and most of us already know what to expect.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake! Ok you can get mad ay square for regurgitating the same old games over and over. But you'll still buy them. THIS HOWEVER IS WAY MORE THEN ANYTHING THEY HAVE EVER RELEASED. Quite Possibly the most recognized FF in the whole series is getting a facelift, being modernized, and released! This was the first game I ever bought for my playstation 1, i got it the year it came out 2 months after it's initial release... i have been playing it over and over since that day and I WILL be playing it again and dishing out whatever they ask to buy it this time around! HELLZ YEAH!

Finally the most visually appealing 3rd person hardcore game I've ever seen... the new uncharted... I have yet to play ANY of the uncharted series, not real interest. Until i saw this. HOLY MOTHER OF F&*K! It's stunning to watch, you're thrown into the action almost instantaneously, it's non-stop "holy shit" through the entire show case. WOW! Stunning! Absolutely Stunning! Fast paced, it makes you WANT to play it. I will be picking this game up as soon as I can!

This years Sony Press conference did not disappoint! If you do not have a PS4 Yet i really really suggest you get one. I will be! The line up is impressive! Sony, and the developers of these games have out done themselves and raised the bar pretty high. I look forward to the rest of this year and most of the next. Thanks Sony!

Fallout 4: Why aren't you playing it?<br />
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This is the question I was asked some time back. And my response probably appeared rather weak to the person who asked me. I think I replied with something along the lines of it's an open-world game and I'm not sure that's for me. Boy was I wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. I wasn't wrong about it being open-world, though. But I was wrong about it not being a game for me. <br />
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At the time I began considering Fallout 4 as an option, I had been enjoying more and more games with deep, well articulated stories. And a couple of those games were stories without words, without dialog, and without NPCs. Games like Journey and ABZÛ and Neverending Nightmares. Still others were full of dialog and NPCs and conversations. Dying Light, The Last of Us, and Life is Strange for example. And although Dying Light was open-world it had a narrow, and linear, focus. Not that those things took anything away from the game; it was a fantastic game. The Last of Us and Life is Strange are both great stories with excellent dialog, but they are quite focused in their purpose, providing limited interaction with the environments. Sure there were many opportunities to explore but in a tertiary role. <br />
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But Fallout 4 isn't like that. Fallout 4 is all about exploring. Truth be told, exploration is of utmost importance. But it's not just about finding new locations to scavenge or participate in battle or scrounge for ammunition, health items, and bottlecaps (the currency of the Wasteland). Oh no, the exploration is vital to the most important aspect of Fallout 4: the stories. <br />
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When I mention the stories, I'm not referring to the main story. It's rather predictable and not overly interesting. And I feel like this flaw in the game gives it a black eye. But thankfully the secondary and tertiary stories make up for the re-washed main story. These sad, gripping, and often gut-wrenching stories are what makes me ask the question, "Why aren't you playing Fallout 4?"<br />
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More than just the scripted encounters are the random encounters. And true enough many of these random encounters are battle focused or essential equipment such as ammo or health, but there will also be random opportunities to engage in a story. You may come across a settler in dire need of medications. Or you may find a funeral that you can only be a witness to as there isn't an option to engage with the mourners. Or you may find a man circling a refrigerator and thinking aloud on how to open it. <br />
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Even some of your available companions have deeply painful stories to tell such as MacCready or Old Longfellow. Maybe you've decided to solve the Eddie Winter quest with Nick Valentine, which you must to reach max affinity, and you learn about who Valentine used to be and why solving the Winter case is so important. <br />
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More importantly though—if you take the time that is—you'll complete the saddest, most heart breaking story in the quest of Arlen Glass, a man who cared so much about making children happy he forgot to take time for his own daughter. When I finished Arlen's quest I had to take a minute away from the game to clear my throat. Or, perhaps, you'll come across Phyllis Daily, and if you have high charisma, she'll tell you about her grandson. Or maybe the Suttons and the terrible fate of a mother and two children thanks to an abusive, lazy father. <br />
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Fallout 4 is filled with tough battles, complex battles, and fun, environmentally rich battles. But the greatest aspect of the game are the battles of the Commonwealth people. The war against total atomic annihilation, and the steps taken to keep families safe from a world no longer safe. What about the efforts of the Tournquist family to reunite, and of Jim to save his family within the confines of Big Jim's Salvage. And when you find Jim and his family take a moment to review what your eyes see, and then ask yourself: would you do the same? <br />
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Fallout 4: Why aren't you playing it?

So this week in destiny has had everyone playing crucible between ironbanner(IB) or Trials Of Osiris(Trials) or just regular crucible and paying off bounties.So I've been playing IB and Trials which is all level advantage PvP and in Trials I did fine I went flawless four times and got pretty awful loot on it which is no surprise. Actually I had great connection on it.But then I went IB which was opposit,I played in fire teams of 6 most of the time and was win/losing every game. The thing is we were all level 33/34 playing against a field of players usually 30/31/32/33/34 and sometimes lower, AND WE WOULD GET RECKED BY LOWER LEVELS!!! Usually this is no problem but iron banner is level advantages ON. This is rediculous!Then there's hand cannons they're ok,well balanced except the thorn.The thorn is 1/2 shots kill if you use the extra burn when my Last Word is 3/4 with a head shot.Now why is a Thorn as strong as a shotgun HUH!?!Bogus!Other than that IB is fine and I recommend others to play it for some great loot.If you've been having the same problems or anything at all just message me or comment on the blog

In battlefield: bad company 2 (rush game mode), the game just started and I straight away hopped on the guided rocket turret thing. The enemy was in a chopper and movin pretty fast. So I shot a rocket, and looked up at the sky. I then saw a hit marker, then 6 names pop up in the kill feed. Sadly, we some how lost that game. A couple things happened in Battlefield 3. So, one time, on an armored kill DLC map, I decided to be a bit stealthy, so I start crawling through the green fields. I've been crawling for 2 minutes, maybe 5, and out of nowhere a jeep DRIVES over me... It was an enemy jeep!! Some how I didn't die and I hopped up and started shooting the freakin guy, to get a vehicle. So I killed him, but once I got close to the vehicle, it blew up! Another thing that happened, it was in the same game, 10 minutes after being stealthy, I jumped on top of a tank, placed a LOT of explosives, got into the tank, and drove off. I was driving for a bit, when I realized, a enemy was chasing me, with a repair tool. So I start driving in circles, and this chase was going on for so long that I hopped out to kill him. But then he... He got control of the tank, at this point the roles were switched. After 5 minutes passed, I walked away and detonated the explosives. In a different server, I was flying around in a jet, and my friends were trying to get jets too, but this freakin chopper kept blowing up the jets as they spawn. I flew over the area where the chopper and my friends were and I flew around, started shooting the chopper with rockets, basically everything I could shoot at it, but it kept dodging every shot I shot at it. So I had only one final option that I could think of. So I went pretty far from the chopper, turned around, went full speed, targeted the chopper, and kamakazed it. My friends reactions were funny when they saw it happened. But one thing in Battlefield 4 that happened (even though I did a lot of amazing things in battlefield 3 & 4 (also with friends (like launching EOD bots and driving jeeps off cliffs)) was on the map Silk Road, I was in a tank, on a sand hill, and I saw a chopper way on the other side of the map. I guessed where it was going, shot, watched that little light get farther away from me and closer to the chopper, I was saying to myself that I was definitely not going to get across map chopper kill with a tank. But then in the distance I saw the light disappear into an explosion, then getting a six-kill kill feed. I was speechless xD

You know, I just realized, we got the "activision" destiny... Before destiny was released, we saw gameplay of a lot of different things such as seeing your friends ship fly in and drop them off at a destination like patrolling the cosmodrome for example. You know the wall that's at the Divide on earth, in one of the game plays, you were able to go on top of it, climb over it. In one of the versions, they said that when you are in patrol, and a crucible match is happening, you can jump in and join that match if there's an open spot. this is in the version where we didn't have any invisible walls blocking us, probably the only time there would be an invisible wall preventing you to join that match is (I'm guessing) when the lobby/match is full. Another thing is the emote... That (legendary) slow clap emote that you now have to pay for in the destiny we got, would probably have been given to us in the version they showed that in. also in one of the reveal trailers, it shows a patrol area that's on earth, that we didn't get. The area looked like it was in a forest with paths and buildings, that looked all torn and fallen apart. The building looked like it was a watch tower, a windmill, or a light house, tower, it was some kind of tower with a spiral staircase. We were going to be able to patrol many locations (the 4 planets we got plus Saturns ring (for TTK)) For locations on Earth: old swamps of Chicago (taken out of the final release of the game), Mumbai push, eastern flood zone (you can go there but it's only in a crucible map), and European dead zone (another area only accessed in the crucible). Locations on Venus: Maat mons (area only accessed in the crucible), trial of kabr is accessible during the vault of glass raid, but is only a little area that you pass through, I hope we go to that area again, through a different pathway, actually showing a BIG area instead of a tiny piece of it. Locations on Mercury: mostly accessible by doing the crucible and getting a flawless on a trials passage. Locations on Saturn: Dreadnaught (got that but as DLC), I think we could have actually patrolled Saturn, before the discription for Saturn was saying that there were ships from the golden age were floating around in the rings of Saturn, I'm guessing that those ships were replaced by the dreadnaught. Locations for Mars's moon, Phobos: accessed in some story missions, but as DLC. Can also be accessed through the crucible (free). Jupiter was going to be a place to explore, to patrol. And then finally, Europa, a moon orbiting around Jupiter, could have also been a patrol area. Though, no sources say that they have been removed from, or didn't make it, to the final game, like old Chicago (which I'm kind of sad about that one). So that saying, maybe like how they did with Phobos and Saturn, they could be released as DLC. aka activisions version of destiny. But there is word that people who buy silver (micro transactions) will help make future DLC free to everybody. Or maybe this is another way to trick people in spending money then having to pay for the DLC in the future. It could be true or it could be a trick, I don't know, I'm hoping that it's true and we get free DLC (FREE DLC) in the future. Also, I should have probably put this near the top, what I mean by "Activisions" version of destiny is that they took content, put it as DLC, gave us a game that has loads of bugs and glitches and unbalanced weapons, barely any story/activities in the game (had to buy the DLC to get a better story, more activities to do). I do like the game, just I remembered that destiny was supposed to be a BIG open world kind of game, and then we just got probably 1/5th maybe like 1/6th of the game (vanilla destiny - not including DLC)